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The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
Three broken people break each other some more until they can become a family.
Joe has an adopted son named Simon (of Haiman, in native tongue) Joe lost his wife and biological son and has never officially adopted Simon. He saved the boy from a wreckage on the coast. Simon doesn't speak, seems older than his years, and gets in a lot of trouble. Simon finds Kerewin one day and keeps going back to visit and brings Joe. They become a makeshift family. Kerewin finds out that Joe has been beating Simon when he's been bad. Kerewin beats Joe and makes him promise not to hit the boy unless she says he can. One day Simon and Kerewin have an argument and he breaks her guitar. She tells Joe that the boy needs to be punished. Joe really beats him and Simon stabs him.
The three are separated. Joe to prison, Simon to hospital and foster care, Kerewin on walk about because feels guilty. She gets very sick. She heals and has the ship that Simon was brought on salvaged so she can adopt the boy (drugs on it).
Very mystical. Strange breaks in type and indentation. But very good.
Joe has an adopted son named Simon (of Haiman, in native tongue) Joe lost his wife and biological son and has never officially adopted Simon. He saved the boy from a wreckage on the coast. Simon doesn't speak, seems older than his years, and gets in a lot of trouble. Simon finds Kerewin one day and keeps going back to visit and brings Joe. They become a makeshift family. Kerewin finds out that Joe has been beating Simon when he's been bad. Kerewin beats Joe and makes him promise not to hit the boy unless she says he can. One day Simon and Kerewin have an argument and he breaks her guitar. She tells Joe that the boy needs to be punished. Joe really beats him and Simon stabs him.
The three are separated. Joe to prison, Simon to hospital and foster care, Kerewin on walk about because feels guilty. She gets very sick. She heals and has the ship that Simon was brought on salvaged so she can adopt the boy (drugs on it).
Very mystical. Strange breaks in type and indentation. But very good.